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Mandriva update for arts
Secunia Advisory: SA20827
Release Date: 2006-06-26
Popularity: 4,896 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Mandriva Linux 2006

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2916


Description:
Mandriva has issued an update for arts. This fixes a security issue, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA20677

Note: Mandriva Linux reportedly does not ship artswrapper setuid root by default.

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

-- Mandrivalinux 2006 --

e339aeda7d29179cd1cccf4733d2ea5b 2006.0/RPMS/arts-1.4.2-2.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
14e035c5433c17569f4c5a75da34fc46 2006.0/RPMS/libarts1-1.4.2-2.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
885d2af8b77254f40864647597d3c18c 2006.0/RPMS/libarts1-devel-1.4.2-2.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
3e874718f3d7b2a3bdf2e643552328a8 2006.0/SRPMS/arts-1.4.2-2.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

-- Mandrivalinux 2006/X86_64 --

0b7bb98d6daca9786a6c9992b5ad1eef x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/arts-1.4.2-2.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
c8b93580c689da29229596b927b6c936 x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/lib64arts1-1.4.2-2.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
ce00bbf335ff2dbe72440a9bb78eaa7a x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/lib64arts1-devel-1.4.2-2.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
3e874718f3d7b2a3bdf2e643552328a8 x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/arts-1.4.2-2.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Original Advisory:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:107

Other References:
SA20677:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20677/


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